Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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Bringing together leading voices from across the globe, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton represents state-of-the-art scholarship on the American writer Edith Wharton, once primarily known as a New York novelist.Focusing on Wharton's extensive body of work and renaissance across 21st-century popular culture, chapters consider:- Wharton in the context of queer studies, race studies, whiteness studies, age studies, disability studies, anthropological studies, and economics;- Wharton's achievements in genres for which she deserves to be better known: poetry, drama, the short story, and non-fiction prose;- Comparative studies with Christina Rossetti, Henry James, and Willa Cather;-The places and cultures Wharton documented in her writing, including France, Greece, Italy, and Morocco;- Wharton's work as a reader and writer and her intersections with film and the digital humanities.Book-ended by Dale Bauer and Elaine Showalter, and with a foreword by the Director and senior staff at The Mount, Wharton's historic Massachusetts home, the Handbook underscores Wharton's lasting impact for our new Gilded Age. It is an indispensable resource for readers interested in Wharton and 19th- and 20th-century literature and culture.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-11-17
Mått:178 x 246 x 28 mm
Vikt:820 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Bloomsbury Handbooks
Antal sidor:376
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350182936

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Emily J. Orlando is Professor of English and the E. Gerald Corrigan Chair in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Fairfield University, USA.

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Orlando’s cleverly curated collection of essays provides new perspectives on Wharton that allow contemporary scholars to read the author afresh.

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List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Preface Dale M. BauerForeword Nicholas Hudson, Anne Schuyler, and Susan Wissler1 Introduction: Broadening the Horizon of Edith Wharton Studies Emily J. OrlandoPart One Edith Wharton and Identity2 Single, White, Female: Miscegenation, Incest, and Reproduction in Edith Wharton’s Twilight Sleep Meredith L. Goldsmith3 Queer Wharton: The Exultations and Agonies of Kate Clephane’s Closet Shannon Brennan4 Picturing Edith Wharton’s Modern Woman: Gender and the Social Construction of Age Melanie V. Dawson5 Paralysis and Euthanasia in Wharton’s The Fruit of the Tree, The Shadow of aDoubt, and Ethan Frome Maria-Novella MercuriPart Two Edith Wharton Beyond the Novel6 “Social Order and Individual Appetites”: Edith Wharton’s Short Stories, 1891-1904 Paul J. Ohler7 Edith Wharton in Verse Emily Setina8 Edith Wharton and Film Donna M. CampbellPart Three Influences and Intertextualities9 “The Chill Joy of Renunciation”: Feminine Sacrifice in Edith Wharton and Christina Rossetti Margaret Jay Jessee10 Edith Wharton and Willa Cather: Beyond “Surface Differences” Julie Olin-Ammentorp11 Consciousness in Edith Wharton and Henry James: The Reef and The Golden Bowl Jill Kress KarnPart Four Global and Cultural Contexts12 Edith Wharton and the Narratives of Travel and Tourism Gary Totten13 Seeking a Home for the Wretched Exotics: Edith Wharton’s Heterotopic Views of Greece Myrto Drizou14 “Totally Vanished…Like a Pinch of Dust”: Edith Wharton and the Trope of Cultural Extinction Nir Evron15 Edith Wharton and Pleasure Virginia Ricard16 The Mermaid as Capitalist: Networking and Upward Mobility in Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the CountryFrancesca SawayaPart Five Edith Wharton’s Library17 Reading the Reader: Edith Wharton’s Library, Digital Methods, and the Uses of Data Sheila Liming18 The Complete Works of Edith Wharton: Preparing the First Authoritative Edition Carol J. Singley, Donna M. Campbell and Frederick WegenerAfterword: Edith Wharton in the Twenty-First Century Elaine ShowalterBibliography Index